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Originally Posted by TheDaddy
No one said all, when their top news programme is already under scrutiny it's fair to expect the top guy to be showing a more than passing interest in everything they're doing. The difference could've simply been him asking if any one had sought lord mcalpine's opinion on the story.
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That would have been the job of the head of newsnight or head of news section and not the job of the DG. The main failure of the report was that Messham was an unreliable witness. Even is Lord McAlpine had been contacted, what could he have done to disprove the allegations before the report went out.